Marsha Mason will guest star in the Mother’s Day episode of ABC’s “The Middle,” playing Frankie’s (Patricia Heaton) mother. The trivia- minded might re member that Heaton starred in TNT’s 2004 remake of “The Goodbye Girl” (opposite Jeff Daniels) — in the same role that garnered Mason an Oscar nomination.
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The 21-year-old actress will be guest starring in a new The Middle episode titled, “The Break Up.”
In the episode, Frankie and Mike (Patricia Heaton, Neil Flynn) are excited to discover that Axl (Charlie McDermott) has found the perfect girlfriend, Morgan (Vega), and that he’s in love. But just as they start to get used to [...]
ABC has scheduled the return of the Oprah Winfrey Oscar Special to air the week before the Academy Awards and plans to give “The Middle” a “Modern Family” lead-in.
The Oprah special will air March 3. On Feb. 17 and Feb. 24, ABC will try out repeats of “The Middle” — which recently hit a season [...]
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The Middle may be middling as a comedy, but the freshman sitcom about an atypical middle-American family got a resounding endorsement this past week from ABC executives: renewal for a second season in the fall.
For show-runners Eileen Heisler and DeAnn Heline, the early pickup is validation of a gentle and genuinely sweet take on raising [...]
ABC Entertainment president Steve McPherson said he was renewing ABC’s freshman comedies Modern Family, The Middle and Cougar Town so all three will get a second season.
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California Chronicle talks about three strong comedy series that debuted this year and one of them is The Middle.
‘The Middle’
There’s no question that “Modern Family” is quickly becoming the best comedy on TV, but “The Middle” (8:30 p.m. Wednesday, WTAE) needs more support.
“The Middle” is a loopy, single-camera comedy about a family [...]
Another list rankes “The Middle” – the show that most people are missing and the people who watch love — high on the Best of 2009 , this time from TV Squad:
7. The Middle. A lot of people will pick Modern Family over this, but I think The Middle is funnier and isn’t tired up [...]
No love for Patricia Heaton in “The Middle,” who’s proving every week that she’s gotten even better since “Everybody Loves Raymond.” Of course, such a choice would have been pretty conventional, so we can’t ding the HFPA for not playing it safe.
Maybe next year?
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ABC get a B+ from The TV Addict:
The Good: ABC took a fairly substantial leap of faith with their brand-new Wednesday night comedy block, and as luck would have it, the leap paid off. What could have been an epic disaster of HANK-esque proportions single-handedly transformed ABC’s once troubled Wednesday night into a [...]
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Great news – full season for The Middle!
ABC has locked in its scripted commitments for the 2009-10 season.
The news, which was confirmed to the site exclusively by network and studio sources, includes some adjustments to its previously indicated episode orders.
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The rest of its lineup – including “Castle,” “The Middle,” “Modern Family,” “Cougar Town,” [...]
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